I'm wondering, did he use cprintf() heavily in his coding? That might be why that package doesn't speak all that well with speakup. Technically if a program is written so it has only a single print statement in it that prints print_string and print_string is manipulated to provide the proper screen output fixing a problem with cprintf() would be a trivial matter of an if/else statement with a printf() added in on its other half testing argv[] for a command line switch. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list